v2.0-beta

• Started rewriting Fergun from scratch.

v1.9

Additions:

• Added Yandex OCR as a fallback OCR API.

Changes:

• Fixed a bug in AI Dungeon module that caused an exception when attempting to get the error message.
• Fixed a bug that caused an exception when modifying a command message in some cases.
• Fixed a bug in play that caused an exception due to a bug in the music library.
• Fixed a bug in translate, badtranslator and ocrtranslate that caused the translated text to not be complete in some cases.
• Updated badtranslator to be more diverse and use all 4 available translation services.
• Updated new and alter to use modals (forms).
• Reduced the cooldown of dump.

v1.8

Additions:

• Added GScraper, a scraping library for Google Images, DuckDuckGo and Brave.
• [img2] Added new command (DuckDuckGo image search).
• [img3] Added new command (Brave image search).
• [privacy] Added new command (privacy policy and opt out options)
• [userinfo] Added user badges.
• [youtube] Added pagination support.
• [wikipedia] Added pagination support.
• [channelinfo] Added support for thread and stage channels.
• [roleinfo] Added role icon as thumbnail.
• Added icons to image search commands.
• Added Discord timestamps to multiple commands.
• Added embeds to messages with attachments (color, invert, screenshot).
• Added fallback pastebin to Hastebin (Hatebin).
• Added multiple configuration options.
• Added an optimized message cache.
• Added sharding support.

Changes:

• Updated the runtime to .NET 6, with lots of performance and memory improvements.
• Replaced the included translators with GTranslate, which includes new languages and a new translator (Yandex.Translate).
• Replaced System.Drawing.Commom with ImageSharp.
• Replaced the old interactive service with Fergun.Interactive.
• Replaced OCR.Space API with Bing Visual Search internal API, which is free and doesn't require an API key.
• Rewritten the AI Dungeon API wrapper, improving the response time of AI Dungeon commands.
• [img] Use images from Google Images.
• Snipe commands can now be opt out with privacy.
• [wikipedia] Use the localized logo.
• [stats] Display the git commit hash and sharding info.
• [help] Ignore the command group when searching for a command.
• [avatar, userinfo] Try to use the user's banner color instead of downloading the avatar and getting the average color whenever possible.
• Improved the reusage of interactive messages.
• Improved the way the bot resolves the users from the command messages.
• Improved the handling of edited command messages with attachments.
• Updated multiple comands to benefit from interactions (buttons, select menus).
• Now image search commands use the highest safe search level on non-NSFW channels.
• Now possible edited command messages won't be processed if they are 4 hours older.
• Lots of bug fixes.
• Other minor changes.

Removals:

• Removed the command identify, it stopped working a long time ago.
• [config] Removed CaptionBot autotranslate option.

v1.6.1

A minor release with important bug fixes.

• [Localization] Fix a bug in GuildUtils.GetLanguage(), returning null when a server didn't have a configuration in the database.
• [LogService] Revert the use of timers to check if it's a new day because it was not reliable and caused the log file to not be created after the callback.
• [Client] Fix a bug in string.IsNullOrEmpty(), having an incorrect value (DblApiToken) when it should be DiscordBotsApiToken.
• [Client] Catch NullReferenceException in IDblSelfBot.GetMeAsync(), this can happen when a bot is not listed in DBL or the token is invalid.
• Added the setup info in README.md.

v1.6

• Fergun is now open source!

• New commands: wolframalpha, spotify, define, archive, shorten, and blacklistserver.

• Added back youtube.

• Lots of internal changes to make the bot easy to self-host.

• Added a prefix cache system. Now the response times should be faster.

• [help] Added a command list cache.

• [stats] Improved the methods to get the bot memory usage.

• [repeat] Improved the performance, limiting the maximum possible length of text to avoid allocating memory unnecessarily.

• Improved the performance of the logging and interactive service.

• [cmdstats] Reduced the number of commands displayed per page.

• [calc] Now using a different math library.

• [urban] Now can be used in non-NSFW channels.

• [code] Rewrote to get a link pointing to the specified command method line from the repository.

• [userinfo] Fixed a bug that caused the activity field to be empty if the user had an emote in their status.

• [lyrics] Fixed a bug in the parser that caused bold text to be overlapped.

• [give] Fixed a bug that allowed to give IDs to bots.

• Fixed some bugs in the Bing Translator wrapper.

• [new] Removed the character limit in the custom mode creation.

• [alter] Removed the character limit.

• Removed the paginator/video cache.

• Removed the word list that badtranslator used.

• Removed nothing and botcolor.

• Now Fergun will send a warning message when a command fails due to a 5xx error.

• Now Fergun will send a warning message when a music command is used when there's no connection to a Lavalink server.

• Now when editing a command message with a paginator, the response message will be deleted if the reactions cannot be removed.

• Now when editing a command message to a command that attaches files, the "Loading" message will be correctly deleted.

• Lots of minor bug fixes.